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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.22
People
Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, French (Paris 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Title
Standing Male Nude with Folded Arms
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with blue wove paper borders adhered to face
Dimensions
36.3 x 20.4 cm (14 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None
  • inscription: bottom left, black ink: (by a later hand): J. B. M. Pierre
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: baron Roger Portalis (L. 2232)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron Roger Portalis (Lugt 2232), Paris. [Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1990, lot 147 (as Pierre)]. [Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1996, lot 238], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.22
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A. 34, p. 411
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Drawing Time", October, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 2015), no. 151, Winter, pp. 3-42, pp. 15-16, repr.
  • Anne-Lise Desmas, Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, and Juliette Trey, Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2016), cat. no. 62, pp. 149-150, repr. p. 150
  • Anne-Lise Desmas, Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, and Juliette Trey, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre Éditions (Paris, 2016), cat. no. 62, pp. 149-150, repr. p. 150
  • Guilhem Scherf and Juliette Trey, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau [exhibition brochure], brochure, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2016), repr. p. 14 as fig. 11
  • Edouard Kopp, The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon, Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2017), p. 7, repr. p. 6 as fig. 4, repr. p. 7 as fig. 5 (detail)

Exhibition History

  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
  • Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 09/14/2016 - 12/05/2016; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 01/10/2017 - 04/02/2017

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